Lake Gossenköllesee is located in the Tyrolean Alps. Credit: Christopher BellasThough human beings, along with other vertebrate and invertebrate organisms, do not photosynthesize, we're certainly the downstream beneficiaries of the life forms that do. Phototrophic organisms at the bottom of the food chain convert plentiful sunlight into the energy that ultimately powers all other...
Schematic representation of the geographic distribution of Q-Z780 and sub-lineages. Colored circles represent geographic distribution and sub-lineage membership as shown in the inset tree. Credit: PLOS ONE (2022).Discovery of chromosomal evidenceA team of scientists affiliated with many institutions in Argentina has discovered chromosomal proof of people residing in South America as far back as 18,000...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was an African antelope with a bluish-gray pelt pertaining to the living sable and roan antelopes. The last blue antelope was shot around 1800. Only 34 years after it was first explained scientifically, making it the just large African mammal species that have become extinct in...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainFor many years, researchers have seen improved photosynthesis as one of the only feasible bright sides of increasing degrees of climatic carbon dioxide (CO2) -- since plants use CO2 for photosynthesis, it is expected that greater degrees of the gas will lead to much more effective plants.In an evaluation published in...
Classes of transcription clusters. Credit: Nature Communications (2022)Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd law states that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Indika Rajapakse, Ph.D., is a believer. The engineer and mathematician now discovers himself a biologist. And he believes the charm of blending these 3 disciplines is crucial to unraveling how cells...
Proteins designed with an ultra-rapid software tool called ProteinMPNN were much more likely to fold up as intended. Credit: Ian Haydon, UW Medicine Institute for Protein DesignOver the past 2 years, machine learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction. Currently, three papers in Science describe a similar revolution in protein design.In the current papers, biologists...
Model of O-antigen ligase enzyme from Gram-negative bacteria. Credit: Diario Salud.Scientists have identified how Gram-negative bacteria-- which cause drug-resistant pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and surgical site infections in hospitalized patients-- complete building a crucial element of their outer membrane that guards these pathogens against attacks by the immune system and antibiotics.The brand-new findings could...
Scientists have found new insights about lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a rare lung disease, which affects approximately 1 in 200,00 Americans and typically includes the growth of abnormal cells in different tissues and organs, including the lungs.Lymphangioleiomyomatosis researchAs scientists studied LAM cells in the lab, they found a "mixed phenotype," or distinctions in physical expression in...
IHU Covid-19 New Variant - More Infectious than OmicronIt was just recently that the new variant of covid-19, Omicron, was recognized first in South Africa multiply promptly around the globe, one more new Covid-19 variation is being reported from France which is believed to be increasingly more contagious than Omicron. Scientists have called the...
The process might additionally "solve a serious emergency comparable to the Apollo 13 calamity."A brand-new type of inexpensive real estate has been suggested for future Mars colonists. All the astronauts are required to do is pay in blood.Scientists from the College of Manchester proposed-- we guarantee this is not the story of a 90s...
